blue nights
signed second printing, 2011.
"the new book...is honest, unflinching, necessarily solipsistic and, in the way of these things, self-lacerating: did she do her duty by her daughter, did she nurture her, protect her, care for her, as a mother should? did she, in a word, love her enough? these are the kinds of questions a survivor—the relict, as the old word has it — will put to herself, cannot avoid putting to herself; questions all the more terrible in that there is no possibility of finding an answer to them. as Didion says, 'what is lost is already behind the locked doors.'" (the new york times)
didion offers a poignant and deeply personal memoir reflecting on the loss of her daughter, quintana, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 39. interwoven with her grief is didion’s meditation on aging, parenthood, and the passage of time.
new york: alfred a. knopf. isbn: 978-0-307-26767-2. 188 pages. 8x5.25". hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: fine. jacket condition: fine. Item #1157
Price: $450.00
